Navajo Weaving
March 10th, 2005 at 7:49 am (uncategorized)
Going with the we’re-not-talking-about-knitting-this-week theme:
My mom visited last weekend (and was present for the happy fleece buying), and she brought along her
small Navajo Weaving Loom, with project in process. Here I am trying to figure out what it all means:
She was working on it without any sort of pattern except a fuzzy printout of a design she liked from a website picture. I decided to bring her Navajo weaving into the current decade and helped her create a graph in MS Excel to follow. A lot like a cross stitch chart, but for weaving. I’m hoping she’ll send me a picture of it when it’s got a full repeat on the loom. She’s using the small loom as a sampler for her larger project, which is less portable. When she left to go back home, she had about 1/3 of a repeat done and it looked really good! Can’t wait to see the full size rug, it’s going to be very impressive.
